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Musically, the album became one of Carey's most diverse bodies of work, structured to be a retro-influenced album, and more dance-oriented than any of her previous releases. On several songs, critics noted Carey to be more sexually suggestive lyrically than before, in part due to the inclusion of several guest hip-hop musicians. Aside from the album's predominant feature of dance tracks, Glitter incorporated several lyrically meaningful and vocal ballads. On "Reflections (Care Enough)", Carey describes an abandoned girl, who in desperation, lashes out to her mother in song, while on "Twister", paying homage to a friend who had committed suicide. On Glitter, several musical talents were featured, such as Eric Benét, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous and Ja Rule. Glitter and its accompanying film were met with generally mixed reviews from music critics, who while complimenting the album's ballads, felt Carey was over-whelmed by the amount of guest appearances, as well as the failed 1980s theme. Universally, Glitter was viewed as a critical and commercial failure, leading to the annulment of Carey's unprecedented $100 million five-album contract with Virgin. The album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, with the lowest-first week sales of Carey's career. Although it peaked outside the top-ten in many countries, Glitter debuted atop the album's chart in Japan, and achieved sales of over one million units. To date, Glitter remains one of Carey's lowest selling albums, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. Several singles were officially released, although following their weak charting, Virgin halted promotion of Glitter. "Loverboy" served as the first single from the project, and quickly became Carey's lowest charting lead single throughout many countries globally. Although reaching number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 following the single's price reduction, "Loverboy" was unable to garner sufficient airplay to stay within the top-ten. Internationally, the song peaked outside the top-twenty in most music markets, while failing to achieve a long chart run. "Never Too Far", the album's second release, failed to chart in the United States, and performed weakly throughout Europe and Asia. Subsequent singles failed to make much of an impact on prominent global charts. |
![I do not own any of this! The audio content belongs to SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. Mariah Carey's effortless and amazing whistle notes from her 5, 6, 7, and 8(soundtrack) albums Daydream, Butterfly, Rainbow, and the Glitter Soundtrack(which is rly great by the way). DAYDREAM Fantasy Underneath the stars Melt away Daydream Interlude [Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix] BUTTERFLY Butterfly Fourth of July Fly away [Butterfly Reprise] The Beautiful Ones RAINBOW Heartbreaker Bliss Heartbreaker [Remix] GLITTER Loverboy Remix Lead the Way Didn't Mean to Turn You On Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica) Want You Never Too Far Twister Loverboy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HQZrD-CCTmw/0.jpg)
